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In Saliva Veritas
Spit's potential diagnostic value has funding agencies putting money where the mouth is
The Scientist 2004, 18(6):23
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A trip to the doctor's office generally entails a deposit of blood or urine from which some diagnoses can be produced after a laborious process. Now, groups of biologists and engineers are working to make disease diagnoses quicker and more efficient by giving credit to a less conventional humor – the Rodney Dangerfield of bodily fluids – spit.
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